ORDO ROSARIUS EQUILIBRIO
MAKE LOVE, AND WAR - THE WEDLOCK OF ROSES
ALBUM COLD MEAT INDUSTRY RELEASE: OCTOBER 13, 2000 REVIEW: OCTOBER 30, 2000

Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio are the continuation of Ordo Equilibrio, but without female vocalist Chelsea Krook. The music gives you a feeling of the apocalypse and I simply state that this is apocalyptic neofolk.
The album contains seven tracks as well as an outro and an intro. Six of the seven real songs are good or even great! One favourite is "Ashen Like Love, and Black Like the Snow" with march drums and sampled folk masses, sending shivers down mine spine because of the power. This song also has the good vocals, strings and acoustic guitars, typical for most songs featured on the album. Another great one is "Flowers and Moonshine in My Garden of Eden". It has very appealing melodies and dull drums, all implicating ruin and misery.
If there's something to complain about, it's the lyrics. I get the feeling that these lyrics have been written with a Swedish-English lexicon very close at hand. It seems as if Tomas Pettersson has used many unusual words he knows - or maybe doesn't know? Although, at times they're beautiful although pretentious. Well, never mind that since this is a cool album which you should own!

JOHAN ASTEMARK